A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities. US President Joe ...

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

When it comes to programming languages, it’s often the newest that garner the most attention. But according to Ted Kremenek, Apple director of languages and runtimes, programmers should be shaking off ...

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the ...

TIOBE Index for November 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent November’s TIOBE Programming Community Index feels less like a simple reshuffle and more like a new ...